On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 9:46:43 AM UTC+8, Sand Glass wrote: > On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 8:13:26 PM UTC+8, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Chr. von Stuckrad > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Sand Glass wrote: > > > > > >> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:18:23 PM UTC+8, Sand Glass wrote: > > >> > how can I stop the pattern at the first "]"? > > >> It's good in vim. Then I try to use the regular in perl script, but > > >> failed. > > > > > > Same 'thing', i.e. the shortest match, so (in linux 'man perlre') > > > as far as I remember a '?' behind the '*' makes it 'non-greedy' > > > and this \[.*?\] gives 'the next closing ']' .
If I use perl script to get the same result in vim. The RE is(match the pattern and remove them): $line =~ s/\[.*?\]//g -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
